Young men and fire

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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire,…

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Title Statements

Full title :Young men and fire / Norman Maclean ; foreword by Timothy Egan.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.
Edition:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (370 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226450490, 022645049X
oclc:ocn987776177
LC Classification:SD421
Dewey Decimal:363.37/9

Subjects

Dodge, Wag Employees Forest fires -- Prevention and control Forest fires -- Prevention and control.… Forêts -- Incendies -- Montana HISTORY ; General Montana -- Mann Gulch Pompiers parachutistes -- États-Unis Smokejumpers Smokejumpers -- United States United States United States., Forest Service